Stories about: FreeNet

Cisco Systems just can't seem to make it through the Black Hat USA conference unscathed. On Wednesday a security researcher showed how an unpatched vulnerability in the company's PIX firewall appliances that could allow outside attackers to gain access to corporate networks.

With the image of peer-to-peer technology tarnished from legal actions taken against high-profile companies such as Napster and Freenet during the past year, many IT executives' feelings about it range from mild skepticism to pure paranoia.

Ian Clarke, who last year created a stir by challenging all copyright law using his Freenet peer-to-peer software as his weapon, has received $4 million from Intel and other investors to create commercial applications based on the software.

Monday's appeals court ruling against Napster Inc. cast a shadow over the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer conference that kicked off Wednesday in San Francisco. While other so-called p-to-p networks are likely to see increased usage with Napster's demise, the ongoing Napster legal battle also could end up setting a precedent that would put alternative file-swapping networks on alert.

Compaq Australia is expected to reveal details about its newest channel partner tomorrow in a move that's expected to raise more than a few eyebrows in the industry.

National ISP Netspace Online Systems is offering customers of the recently abandoned FreeNet service a seamless transfer to its own service, at a price.

With hundreds of new technologies rearing their heads on a weekly basis, pinpointing which innovators and innovations will have an impact as the New Economy moves forward is a difficult proposition. Running the gamut from chips to hardware to programming tools to software, these innovators are driving the kinds of technologies that will help make the intersection of the Internet and e-business a reality.

Internet market analysts to publishers: weep. The music and book publishing industry stands to lose billions in revenue from online file sharing, according to a recent Forrester Research report, which said that there's little anyone can do about that. Digital rights management (DRM) - technology for encrypting and watermarking files to impede unauthorised transmission - won't work, said Eric Scheirer, Forrester's music industry analyst.

The Australian IT market will grow to be worth $A36 billion by 2004 with services showing staggering growth, according to one local forecaster. Elsewhere the researchers appeared to concentrate their efforts on the endlessly exciting e-commerce arena. Len Rust samples the latest offerings

Internet market analysts to publishers: Weep. The music and book publishing industry stands to lose billions in revenue from online file sharing, according to a report released Tuesday from Forrester Research, which said that there's little anyone can do about that.